Cavalcade

Sinclair, Alison

ISBN 10: 185798532X / ISBN 13: 9781857985320

Published by Millenium, London, 1998

About this Item

Cavalcade, Sinclair, Alison. Published by Millenium, London, 1998. First Edition. Signed by author. Both volume and jacket are in fine condition. Nominated for the Arthur C. Clarke Award for best book. Just as the aliens promised, a ship has landed and taken away those who took up their invitation to a new, better life. But when the pioneers wake aboard the vessel there is no welcoming committee to be seen. All the watches have stopped, except for one old-fashioned pocket watch which reveals two and a quarter hours have passed unawares. And then a scream rends the air: a pacemaker has stopped and there's nothing anyone can do to restart the ailing heart. When the US Special Forces squad radio also malfunctions, it's clear that something on board the alien ship is decommissioning everything electronic, no matter how mundane.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Cavalcade
• Publisher: Millenium, London
• Publication Date: 1998
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 185798532X
• ISBN 13: 9781857985320
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition: 1st Edition
• Condition: Fine
• Dust Jacket Condition: Fine
• Signed: Signed by Author(s)
• Seller catalogs:
  • FICTION FANTASY SCI FI
  • FICTION/LITERATURE

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Synopsis

Having taken up the aliens' invitation to travel to a better world, the assembled humans find themselves in an enormous cathedral like edifice, their electronic clocks stopped at midnight - the moment they were picked up from the beaches - and with two hours or more missing. None of their advanced technology works - anything like a silicon based microchip is broken down to dust. Two groups form - one made up of a US army reconnaissence team , one a women's group in search of self determination. They try and organise life aboard the alien ship, since there are no actual aliens in evidence and the humans appear to have been left completely to their own devices. But after a time it seems that it is not that there are no aliens, but that the ship itself is an alien life form - and one that recruits its own crew from amongst the volunteers who come aboard. Some will fail, some will be rejected and some will survive. Only one woman seems to believe that communication with the aliens is possible, that communication is in fact the only way to survive and perhaps return to earth.

About the Author

* Nominated for the 1998 Arthur C. Clarke Awards

* ‘Sinclair is an influential and fast-rising voice’ The Express

* ‘A well-plotted, well-written adventure’ SFX